16-06-2014, 02:28 AM
Now that the US and Iran now have a shared interest, for a while at least, in Iraq things are moving along rapidly in these talks....
Quote:http://backchannel.al-monitor.com/index....in-vienna/Burns to join Iran nuclear talks in Vienna
Posted on June 15, 2014 by Laura Rozen
US Deputy Secretary of State Williams Burns will join talks between Iran and the P5+1 in Vienna on Monday, a US official told Al Monitor.
Burns was seen by Al-Monitor on the plane Sunday traveling with the US delegation, led by Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, to Vienna from Washington.
Burns previously led secret US bilateral talks with Iran last fall. But last week the State Department announced that he and Sherman were co-leading the US team to bilateral talks with Iran in Geneva in order to break what is reportedly has been a deadlock in the negotiations.
As negotiators intensify efforts to reach a final nuclear accord by July 20, the US bilateral and p5+1 nuclear negotiating teams seem to have merged, as the US Iran contacts on a nuclear deal become less secret.
Burns, when he traveled to Oman for secret nuclear talks with Iran last fall, reportedly traveled on an unmarked US government plane. But he, Sherman and their team were seen Sunday at the Washington Dulles airport business lounge awaiting their flight to Vienna, with little apparent attempt at hiding his presence.
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